Depression has been a growing problem throughout the industrialized world for several decades, but it has skyrocketed since the onset of the pandemic. Death rates from substance abuse, suicide, and gun violence have skyrocketed, anxiety has become a major problem,…
Spiritual love is a state where we view humanity as a single united whole, which we love. It is because, through such an attitude to a common unified image of humanity, we discover revelation of—and adhesion to—the Creator. The Creator…
Over the past year, the anti-work movement, which began in 2013, has been gaining traction. Last year, it grew from 700,000 people to 1.6 million. However, its slogan, “Unemployment for all, not just the rich!” will not create a better…
Not long ago, there was a story in the press about a disabled twelve-year-old boy whose class went on a hiking trip. The boy thought he’d have to miss the excursion and was very sad about it, but his classmates…
We know what we want to receive for ourselves. That should be the same as what we want to give to others. We should thus remember that loving others first and foremost means treating others as we treat ourselves. Of…
It is impossible to rid ourselves of disease without correcting our egoistic attitudes to each other. Diseases are demonstrations of our inner egoistic attitudes toward each other, which are our very nature that we cannot escape. In other words, diseases…
On January 3, the US, China, Russia, the UK, and France signed a statement that they will “consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost responsibilities.” The powers agreed that “a…
The current school system has no objective to develop people into human beings, in the complete sense of the term. In Hebrew, the word for “human” (“Adam”) comes from the word for “similar” (“Domeh”), and a human is considered one…
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. A student of mine watched the film Life Overtakes Me, which tells the story of refugee children in Sweden who withdraw into a coma-like…
For the past fifteen years, every December 28, New Yorkers have been burning their past year’s woes on “Good Riddance Day” in Times Square. People write down their most embarrassing moments, biggest failures, worst regrets, and throw their notes into…
Valentine, a frequent viewer of my shows with filmmaker Semion Vinokur, wrote him that lately, he has come to feel that everything is a lie: The government is lying, his bosses are lying, the media is lying, and there is…
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙣, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣. 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧. When you look at today’s American…